


The new BookNotes Review on WBJC
Last month, I added a mid-month component to BookNotes, highlighting some of the new releases that catch my eye each month. Please click on the link for more.
Behind the scenes with Sasha Cooke
After a fair amount of back and forth, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke’s publicist and I managed to find a time when I could call her to talk about her CD how do i find you? and the spin-off recital, which she is presenting at Baltimore’s premier chamber music...
“Old New Worlds” home at last
As my jetlag recedes and I sift through the highlights of a magical trip back to Africa, I feel such a sense of “rightness” about Old New Worlds have been given a home—finally—in the place where she is so rooted. I am beyond grateful to Christy Weyer and...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA, on Tuesday, January 15th in 1929, becoming a national icon in the civil rights movement in America and around the world—including my native South Africa during apartheid. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,...